File this under Buy Now, Feel Smug Later. Your friends might not be overly impressed by a BV monogram, or by the Vicenza-based company's signature woven leather, just yet. But after the Bottega Veneta show was the surprise hit of fashion week in New York, the smart money is on the label to be the Next Big Thing. Harvey Nichols, the only British stockist, is currently revamping the Bottega Veneta concession (it reopens next Wednesday), but you will still have to make do with the accessories until autumn, when the harlequin leather-and-tweed skirts and ribbon leather blouson jackets, currently available only in Italy and the US, might make it to these shores.

For now, content yourself with investing in a woven leather handbag - it will look just as up to date next season, we promise. You'll have to start saving now, though: woven leather bags cost from £400.